withersn.

Brit.

/ˈwɪðəz/, U.S.

/ˈwɪðərz/

Forms: occasionally singular wither. Also 1600s weather-.

Etymology: apparently a reduced form of widersome or -sone (see quots. 1541-2, 1547 at sense a), < wider- = wither- prefix + an obscure element; compare German widerrist withers, < wider- wither- prefix + rist wrist n.

a. In plural with plural agreement. In a horse: the highest part of the back, lying between the shoulder blades. Also: the corresponding part in some other animals, as the ox or the sheep. Often in figurative context, esp. after Shakespeare (quot. 1604), with allusion to the ‘wringing’ of a horse's withers.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > [noun] > hoofed animal > parts of > wither(s)

withers1541

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > back or types of > withers

withers1541

navel1684

wallis1686

warridge1790

1541–2 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 5 §1 Every horse..to be..in heyght xiiij handfulles..measured from the nether parte of the here of the houghe unto the upper part of the Wydersomes, That is to saye, the upper parte of the Shulders.

1547 W. Salesbury Dict. Eng. & Welshe Yskwydd gudun, the wyder sone.

1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 13^v Wring not a horse on the withers, with a false saddle.1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iv. xix. f. 218^v In his [sc. the Bull's] necke toward the Withers are 7. Starres.1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. P4 That wrung him on the withers worse than all the rest.1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 231 Let the gauled Iade winch, our withers are vnwrong. 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe v. sig. H2^v Never were three innocent Cittizens..so abhominably wrung vnder the withers.a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV cccxlvii, in Poems (1878) IV. 87 Though the chaine of Tyrranye..gall'd the withers of their will.1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 67 Contrive that the Saddle may pinch the Beast in his Withers.1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice II. v. iii. 109 ‘Tell me now,’ said Caroline, pressing on the wrung withers, [etc.].1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. ii. 25 The Vampire bat is often the cause of much trouble, by biting the horses on their withers.1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia xviii. 475 The shoulders [of the sable antelope]..are extremely high at the withers.1886 J. A. Symonds Catholic Reaction in Renaissance in Italy (1898) VII. xi. 179 There is not a city of Italy which Tassoni did not wring in the withers of its self-conceit.singular.1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 597 The wither of the beast, I meane the top of his shoulder next to his necke.1695 London Gaz. No. 3096/4 A black Gelding,..the Hair clipt on his Wither.1770 G. White Let. Mar. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) I measured it [sc. the moose-deer], as they do an horse, and found that, from the ground to the wither, it was just five feet four inches.1850 ‘H. Hieover’ Pract. Horsemanship 118 The saddle, pressing on the off side of the wither, would pinch the horse.1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 160 A wide wither is nearly as troublesome as a high one.

b. transferred. The part of a saddle which comes over the withers.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle

saddle-boweOE

arsonc1300

saddle skirt1361

saddle-tree1364

skirtc1400

saddle panel1465

stock-tree1470

stock1497

pommela1500

tree1535

pillion cloth1540

port1548

saddle stock1548

pilch1552

bolster1591

cantle1591

shank-pilliona1599

pillowc1600

pad1604

crutch1607

sivet1607

saddle crutcha1614

saddle eaves1663

saddle tore1681

burr1688

head1688

narve1688

saddle seat1688

sidebar1688

torea1694

quarter1735

bands of a saddle1753

witherband1764

withers1764

peak1775

pillion-stick1784

boot-housing1792

saddle flap1798

saddle lap1803

fork1833

flap1849

horn1849

skirting1852

hunting-horn1854

head-plate1855

saddle horn1856

cantle bar1859

leaping-horn1859

straining1871

stirrup-bar1875

straining-leather1875

spring tree1877

leaping-head1881

officer-tree1894

monkey1911

monkey-strap1915

thigh roll1963

straining-web-

1764 T. Wallis Farrier's & Horseman's Compl. Dict. (ed. 2) at Bows of a Saddle The withers is the arch that rises two or three fingers over the horse's withers.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations, as wither-gall, wither pad, wither-strap.

ΚΠ

1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. (Gloss.) 239 Wither Strap, a part of the harness which goes round the withers of the horse to hold up the collar.

1886 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 299 Many of them had open kidney-sores and wither-galls.

1963 E. H. Edwards Saddlery xv. 112 Numnahs and wither pads are used in conjunction with saddles.

1976 Horse & Hound 3 Dec. 52 (advt.) The John Ayres New Zealand Rug... Featuring a sheepskin wither pad.

C2.

witherband n. (see quot. 1764¹).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle

saddle-boweOE

arsonc1300

saddle skirt1361

saddle-tree1364

skirtc1400

saddle panel1465

stock-tree1470

stock1497

pommela1500

tree1535

pillion cloth1540

port1548

saddle stock1548

pilch1552

bolster1591

cantle1591

shank-pilliona1599

pillowc1600

pad1604

crutch1607

sivet1607

saddle crutcha1614

saddle eaves1663

saddle tore1681

burr1688

head1688

narve1688

saddle seat1688

sidebar1688

torea1694

quarter1735

bands of a saddle1753

witherband1764

withers1764

peak1775

pillion-stick1784

boot-housing1792

saddle flap1798

saddle lap1803

fork1833

flap1849

horn1849

skirting1852

hunting-horn1854

head-plate1855

saddle horn1856

cantle bar1859

leaping-horn1859

straining1871

stirrup-bar1875

straining-leather1875

spring tree1877

leaping-head1881

officer-tree1894

monkey1911

monkey-strap1915

thigh roll1963

straining-web-

1764 T. Wallis Farrier's & Horseman's Compl. Dict. (ed. 2) Witherband,..a band or piece of iron, laid underneath a saddle, about four fingers above the withers of the horse, to keep tight the two pieces of wood that form the bow.

1764 T. Wallis Farrier's & Horseman's Compl. Dict. (ed. 2) at Bands of a Saddle Besides these two great bands, the fore-bow has a small one called the wither-band, and a crescent to keep up the wither arch.

wither-lock n. (see quot. 1825).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > coat > mane or types of > part held when mounting horse

wither-lock1825

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Witherlock, that lock of hair in the mane, of which one takes hold when mounting on horse-back.

witherwrung adj. injured in the withers.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > strained in withers

witherwrung1656

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xxxi. 54 A three-wheel'd Charret..drawn by lean weather~wrung-Jades.

1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! II. v. 57 A..broken-winded..wither-wrung..horse.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	withers
释义	withersn. Brit. /ˈwɪðəz/, U.S. /ˈwɪðərz/ Forms: occasionally singular wither. Also 1600s weather-. Etymology: apparently a reduced form of widersome or -sone (see quots. 1541-2, 1547 at sense a), < wider- = wither- prefix + an obscure element; compare German widerrist withers, < wider- wither- prefix + rist wrist n. a. In plural with plural agreement. In a horse: the highest part of the back, lying between the shoulder blades. Also: the corresponding part in some other animals, as the ox or the sheep. Often in figurative context, esp. after Shakespeare (quot. 1604), with allusion to the ‘wringing’ of a horse's withers. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > [noun] > hoofed animal > parts of > wither(s) withers1541 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > back or types of > withers withers1541 navel1684 wallis1686 warridge1790 1541–2 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 5 §1 Every horse..to be..in heyght xiiij handfulles..measured from the nether parte of the here of the houghe unto the upper part of the Wydersomes, That is to saye, the upper parte of the Shulders. 1547 W. Salesbury Dict. Eng. & Welshe Yskwydd gudun, the wyder sone. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 13^v Wring not a horse on the withers, with a false saddle.1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iv. xix. f. 218^v In his [sc. the Bull's] necke toward the Withers are 7. Starres.1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. P4 That wrung him on the withers worse than all the rest.1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 231 Let the gauled Iade winch, our withers are vnwrong. View more context for this quotation1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe v. sig. H2^v Never were three innocent Cittizens..so abhominably wrung vnder the withers.a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV cccxlvii, in Poems (1878) IV. 87 Though the chaine of Tyrranye..gall'd the withers of their will.1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 67 Contrive that the Saddle may pinch the Beast in his Withers.1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice II. v. iii. 109 ‘Tell me now,’ said Caroline, pressing on the wrung withers, [etc.].1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. ii. 25 The Vampire bat is often the cause of much trouble, by biting the horses on their withers.1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia xviii. 475 The shoulders [of the sable antelope]..are extremely high at the withers.1886 J. A. Symonds Catholic Reaction in Renaissance in Italy (1898) VII. xi. 179 There is not a city of Italy which Tassoni did not wring in the withers of its self-conceit.singular.1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 597 The wither of the beast, I meane the top of his shoulder next to his necke.1695 London Gaz. No. 3096/4 A black Gelding,..the Hair clipt on his Wither.1770 G. White Let. Mar. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) I measured it [sc. the moose-deer], as they do an horse, and found that, from the ground to the wither, it was just five feet four inches.1850 ‘H. Hieover’ Pract. Horsemanship 118 The saddle, pressing on the off side of the wither, would pinch the horse.1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 160 A wide wither is nearly as troublesome as a high one. b. transferred. The part of a saddle which comes over the withers. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle saddle-boweOE arsonc1300 saddle skirt1361 saddle-tree1364 skirtc1400 saddle panel1465 stock-tree1470 stock1497 pommela1500 tree1535 pillion cloth1540 port1548 saddle stock1548 pilch1552 bolster1591 cantle1591 shank-pilliona1599 pillowc1600 pad1604 crutch1607 sivet1607 saddle crutcha1614 saddle eaves1663 saddle tore1681 burr1688 head1688 narve1688 saddle seat1688 sidebar1688 torea1694 quarter1735 bands of a saddle1753 witherband1764 withers1764 peak1775 pillion-stick1784 boot-housing1792 saddle flap1798 saddle lap1803 fork1833 flap1849 horn1849 skirting1852 hunting-horn1854 head-plate1855 saddle horn1856 cantle bar1859 leaping-horn1859 straining1871 stirrup-bar1875 straining-leather1875 spring tree1877 leaping-head1881 officer-tree1894 monkey1911 monkey-strap1915 thigh roll1963 straining-web- 1764 T. Wallis Farrier's & Horseman's Compl. Dict. (ed. 2) at Bows of a Saddle The withers is the arch that rises two or three fingers over the horse's withers. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as wither-gall, wither pad, wither-strap. ΚΠ 1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. (Gloss.) 239 Wither Strap, a part of the harness which goes round the withers of the horse to hold up the collar. 1886 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 299 Many of them had open kidney-sores and wither-galls. 1963 E. H. Edwards Saddlery xv. 112 Numnahs and wither pads are used in conjunction with saddles. 1976 Horse & Hound 3 Dec. 52 (advt.) The John Ayres New Zealand Rug... Featuring a sheepskin wither pad. C2. witherband n. (see quot. 1764¹). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle saddle-boweOE arsonc1300 saddle skirt1361 saddle-tree1364 skirtc1400 saddle panel1465 stock-tree1470 stock1497 pommela1500 tree1535 pillion cloth1540 port1548 saddle stock1548 pilch1552 bolster1591 cantle1591 shank-pilliona1599 pillowc1600 pad1604 crutch1607 sivet1607 saddle crutcha1614 saddle eaves1663 saddle tore1681 burr1688 head1688 narve1688 saddle seat1688 sidebar1688 torea1694 quarter1735 bands of a saddle1753 witherband1764 withers1764 peak1775 pillion-stick1784 boot-housing1792 saddle flap1798 saddle lap1803 fork1833 flap1849 horn1849 skirting1852 hunting-horn1854 head-plate1855 saddle horn1856 cantle bar1859 leaping-horn1859 straining1871 stirrup-bar1875 straining-leather1875 spring tree1877 leaping-head1881 officer-tree1894 monkey1911 monkey-strap1915 thigh roll1963 straining-web- 1764 T. Wallis Farrier's & Horseman's Compl. Dict. (ed. 2) Witherband,..a band or piece of iron, laid underneath a saddle, about four fingers above the withers of the horse, to keep tight the two pieces of wood that form the bow. 1764 T. Wallis Farrier's & Horseman's Compl. Dict. (ed. 2) at Bands of a Saddle Besides these two great bands, the fore-bow has a small one called the wither-band, and a crescent to keep up the wither arch. wither-lock n. (see quot. 1825). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > coat > mane or types of > part held when mounting horse wither-lock1825 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Witherlock, that lock of hair in the mane, of which one takes hold when mounting on horse-back. witherwrung adj. injured in the withers. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > strained in withers witherwrung1656 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xxxi. 54 A three-wheel'd Charret..drawn by lean weather~wrung-Jades. 1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! II. v. 57 A..broken-winded..wither-wrung..horse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1541
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